"We shall hold talks even if we have little chance of success, Mr. Aliyev said at the ceremony dedicated to the 13th anniversary of the establishment of the Interior Ministry's troops of Azerbaijan.
He pointed out recent progress in the talks. The conflict settlement should meet the principles of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and the international law, Ilkham Aliyev stressed.
"If this is impossible we shall quit the negotiations and search for other ways of the conflict settlement," the head of state added.
"We need no war. A war is a humanitarian catastrophe but we should be ready for this. We should liberate our territories at all costs," Mr. Aliyev emphasized.
In his words, violations of the cease-fire agreement in Nagorny Karabakh are Armenia's provocation pursuing certain goals. "If they take any offensive efforts we shall rebuff them and Armenians will never want to do this again," the president noted.
He is ready to meet with his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharyan but it is necessary to draft the agenda of the meeting.
According to Ilkham Aliyev, mutual concessions are out of the question.
Meanwhile, the security of the Armenian population of Nagorny Karabakh can be discussed, he said.
Speaking about the domestic situation in Azerbaijan, Mr. Aliyev said that the Georgian and Ukrainian scenarios are impossible in the republic.
"I am not afraid of such power shift. It is impossible in Azerbaijan," the president told journalists.
In his opinion, such revolutions are possible in the countries where people and authorities are separated by a gap of misunderstanding.
"Azerbaijan's authorities serve the people," Mr. Aliyev stressed. He promised to take all effort to gain people's support.
Nagorny Karabakh is Azerbaijan's region with Armenian population. The armed conflict in Nagorny Karabakh in the early 1990s left dozens of thousands of people killed. Hundreds of thousands of people became refugees. Military operations were stopped there on May 12, 1994.
